Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the previous three years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bankrupt may be required to submit accounts for the previous three years and to provide additional information as may be required by the official receiver ( rr 6.64–6.66 ) . |
| 2 | Children whose parents were non-native speakers of English , or who had resided in a non-English-speaking country for more than six months in the previous three years , were excluded . |
| 3 | In fact , there are now more companies with no plans for future investment ( 52 companies ) than companies that had not made any investment over the previous three years ( 43 ) . |
| 4 | Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers . |
| 5 | Although tax consultancy fee income rose by 3% to £105m , this compares with a total increase of 134% over the previous three years . |
| 6 | Here the unilateral option intersected with the other strategy that de Gaulle had been pursuing , in a number of places , over the course of the previous three years . |
| 7 | The only restrictions on purchasers were not to have owned their own home during the previous three years or to have spent more than $100,000 on their prospective North Side home . |
| 8 | It was voluntary for others at that stage , though from last year those transferring to fellowship had to show their CPD record for the previous three years . |
| 9 | Black ( 1982 ) related changes in net fixed investment to changes in GDP over the previous three years . |
| 10 | Though they admitted a whole series of assaults over the previous three years , they disputed their frequency , he said in his closing speech . |
| 11 | Over 200 works were shown , and the fact that all the artists showed painting representative of their development during the previous three years gave the exhibition an added air of being a Cubist demonstration . |
| 12 | Bosch will be able to buy them out in 1996 for 20.4 times average earnings per share in the previous three years up to a maximum of 394p . |
| 13 | The very significant leap of 1982 , an increase of 73% , was partly to offset the dip in the previous three years and was in turn offset by another dip during the Léotard years ( 1986–88 ) . |
| 14 | However , because they had been unemployed , they had not earned enough money in the previous three years to qualify for the mature student allowance , and so it was denied to them . |
| 15 | In the end , areas were to be selected for three years ( at NUTS Level III ) according to the following conditions : an unemployment rate higher by at least 15 per cent than the EC average during the previous three years , and industrial employment as a percentage of total employment greater than the EC average in every year of the previous fifteen years . |
| 16 | In national parks or Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONBs ) , or in areas designated by the Secretary of State as ‘ rural ’ , the sale contains a covenant limiting the freedom of the purchasing tenant and his successors to resell the dwelling ; houses can be resold only to ‘ locals ’ who fulfil certain criteria , such as living or working in the designated rural area for the previous three years ; or , for ten years after the original purchase , the tenant has first to offer to resell to the council ( Liell 1981 ) . |
| 17 | However , the figures of 2,561 drivers humiliated for a 3.2 per cent return were only the average over the previous three years in Nottingham . |
| 18 | The drought of the previous three years has dissolved into into a huge downpour and now there 's more of a worry about being too much rather than not enough water . |
| 19 | S 212 gives a public company the power to investigate the ownership of its shares by sending a written notice to any person or company which it believes has had an interest in its share capital over the previous three years . |
| 20 | The burgeoning European drift-net fleet is thought to have killed as many as 4000 dolphins in 1989 , and at least 23 sperm whales during the previous three years . |
| 21 | This economic slowdown , which threatened to become a full-blown recession , had the effect of highlighting structural weaknesses hitherto obscured by the comfortable consumer-led growth of the previous three years . |
| 22 | In the early days of independence , TANU and the Government appear to have been anxious to lower the political temperature , following the excitement of the previous three years . |
| 23 | Sixty eight ( 38% ) had not had contact with social or voluntary services in the previous three years ; 51 ( 28% ) had been advised to contact social services ‘ if the need arose ’ ; and only 62 ( 34% ) people had received regular visits from social services personnel ( social workers , occupational therapists , etc ) . |
| 24 | Just as he had done on over 100 occasions during the previous three years , the seller sold some animal food to the buyer . |
| 25 | Neither the debtor himself nor a creditor can present a petition unless the debtor is domiciled in England and Wales ; is personally present in England and Wales on the day on which the petition is presented ; or at any time in the previous three years has been ordinarily resident , has had a place of residence , or has carried on business in England and Wales ( s 265(1) ) . |